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Accurate detection of anatomic landmarks is essential for assessing alveolar bone and root conditions, thereby optimizing clinical outcomes in orthodontics, periodontics, and implant dentistry. Manual annotation of landmarks on cone-beam…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Anbang Wang , Marawan Elbatel , Keyuan Liu , Lizhuo Lin , Meng Lan , Yanqi Yang , Xiaomeng Li

In radiologists' routine work, one major task is to read a medical image, e.g., a CT scan, find significant lesions, and describe them in the radiology report. In this paper, we study the lesion description or annotation problem. Given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ke Yan , Yifan Peng , Veit Sandfort , Mohammadhadi Bagheri , Zhiyong Lu , Ronald M. Summers

Intra-operative 2D-3D registration of X-ray images with pre-operatively acquired CT scans is a crucial procedure in orthopedic surgeries. Anatomical landmarks pre-annotated in the CT volume can be detected in X-ray images to establish 2D-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Pragyan Shrestha , Chun Xie , Yuichi Yoshii , Itaru Kitahara

We study the problem of Salient Object Subitizing, i.e. predicting the existence and the number of salient objects in an image using holistic cues. This task is inspired by the ability of people to quickly and accurately identify the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Jianming Zhang , Shugao Ma , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Stan Sclaroff , Margrit Betke , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price , Radomir Mech

We present two techniques to improve landmark localization in images from partially annotated datasets. Our primary goal is to leverage the common situation where precise landmark locations are only provided for a small data subset, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Sina Honari , Pavlo Molchanov , Stephen Tyree , Pascal Vincent , Christopher Pal , Jan Kautz

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

Cephalometric tracing method is usually used in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based framework to automatically detect anatomical landmarks in cephalometric X-ray images. We train the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Zhusi Zhong , Jie Li , Zhenxi Zhang , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Fetal pose estimation in 3D ultrasound (US) involves identifying a set of associated fetal anatomical landmarks. Its primary objective is to provide comprehensive information about the fetus through landmark connections, thus benefiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Chaoyu Chen , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Wenlong Shi , Yan Cao , Mingyuan Luo , Xindi Hu , Lei Zhue , Lequan Yu , Kejuan Yue , Yuanji Zhang , Yi Xiong , Dong Ni , Weijun Huang

Localization of anatomical landmarks is essential for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and research. In this paper, we propose a novel deep network, named feature aggregation and refinement network (FARNet), for the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yueyuan Ao , Hong Wu

Registering images from different modalities is an active area of research in computer aided medical interventions. Several registration algorithms have been developed, many of which achieve high accuracy. However, these results are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Russell H. Taylor , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter

Assessment of spontaneous movements can predict the long-term developmental disorders in high-risk infants. In order to develop algorithms for automated prediction of later disorders, highly precise localization of segments and joints by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Daniel Groos , Lars Adde , Ragnhild Støen , Heri Ramampiaro , Espen A. F. Ihlen

Purpose: We perform anatomical landmarking for craniomaxillofacial (CMF) bones without explicitly segmenting them. Towards this, we propose a new simple yet efficient deep network architecture, called \textit{relational reasoning network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Neslisah Torosdagli , Syed Anwar , Payal Verma , Denise K Liberton , Janice S. Lee , Wade W. Han , Ulas Bagci

Vascular anomalies, more colloquially known as birthmarks, affect up to 1 in 10 infants. Though many of these lesions self-resolve, some types can result in medical complications or disfigurement without proper diagnosis or management.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Justin Chan , Sharat Raju , Randall Bly , Jonathan A. Perkins , Shyamnath Gollakota

Assessing the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy requires accurate identification and localization of key anatomical structures, reasoning about their geometric relationships to one another, and determining the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Aditya Murali , Deepak Alapatt , Pietro Mascagni , Armine Vardazaryan , Alain Garcia , Nariaki Okamoto , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

In this work we focus on learning facial representations that can be adapted to train effective face recognition models, particularly in the absence of labels. Firstly, compared with existing labelled face datasets, a vastly larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhonglin Sun , Chen Feng , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Localizing oneself during endoscopic procedures can be problematic due to the lack of distinguishable textures and landmarks, as well as difficulties due to the endoscopic device such as a limited field of view and challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gary Sarwin , Alessandro Carretta , Victor Staartjes , Matteo Zoli , Diego Mazzatenta , Luca Regli , Carlo Serra , Ender Konukoglu

This paper addresses the challenge of localization of anatomical landmarks in knee X-ray images at different stages of osteoarthritis (OA). Landmark localization can be viewed as regression problem, where the landmark position is directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aleksei Tiulpin , Iaroslav Melekhov , Simo Saarakkala

Objective: Medical image datasets with pixel-level labels tend to have a limited number of organ or tissue label classes annotated, even when the images have wide anatomical coverage. With supervised learning, multiple classifiers are…

Diagnosis based on medical images, such as X-ray images, often involves manual annotation of anatomical keypoints. However, this process involves significant human efforts and can thus be a bottleneck in the diagnostic process. To fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jinhee Kim , Taesung Kim , Taewoo Kim , Jaegul Choo , Dong-Wook Kim , Byungduk Ahn , In-Seok Song , Yoon-Ji Kim

As prior knowledge of objects or object features helps us make relations for similar objects on attentional tasks, pre-trained deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be used to detect salient objects on images regardless of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Nevrez Imamoglu , Chi Zhang , Wataru Shimoda , Yuming Fang , Boxin Shi